• The sleek design
• The beautiful back end (yes, I said beautiful back end. Go ahead and giggle)
• The shear simplicity of posting
• The richness it provided when importing feeds

But I left it because of a few things that I was seriously missing:

• Comments – why does this have to be one way? (I hear they’re working on that)
• Image feeds not showing up as images (they do – except the ones fetched via Jaiku – which is understandable)
• The fact that I was already well into Jaiku, which provided me with many of the same features and more (although not in nearly as well executed design, I might add)

Now, spurred on by a recent discussion on Jaiku, I’ve decided to give tumblr another go. So I’ve added a Tumblr link to my navigation, and i sincerely hope that tumblr fulills its potential. Because I really like the idea of it, and I still believe there’s something there. An as to why I put the link next to the RSS link. Well, it’s all in the spirit of syndication, right?

More on tumblelogs here.

BTW – someone out there must have some really cool ideas for using tumblelogs. Out of the box stuff. Drop a link or an idea in a comment.